homework#4

Throughout the passage, it is hard to determine which side is right and which side is wrong. Amanda receives an e-mail from her teacher that her work is recorded as plagiarism. Because when her teacher puts Amanda's assignment onto Turnitin a program that can analyze whether the work is cheating or not, the teacher asserts that Amanda's homework is plagiarized. In my personal view, it is very ridiculous to just use a machine to determine the homework is plagiarized by finding the similarity between Amanda's writing and all articles in Turnitin's article bank. This kind of homework correcting is so grim and unreasonable since the Internet includes lots of article it is unavoidable to find similarity between one's assignment and others' work on the internet. What is more? Since "cheating record" by using Turnitin, this spot can be like a bar code on a good follows whole her life.

However, on the other hand, Amanda must did something wrong. This can explain why Amanda's homework is considered as plagiarism, but many other students' work in this course did not find the same problem. Although some other students have faced or will face such problem, it just takes little part of the whole articles checked by Turnitin.  Academic dishonesty is a very serious problem in university and society. Turnitin does not always bring the negative influence, it increase the efficiency of checking homework. To some extent, it hugely declines the unfound-plagiarism.